Simon Wolfson
Simon Adam Wolfson, Baron Wolfson of Aspley Guise ( born October 27, 1967 in London ) is a British businessman and since 2001 Chief Executive of the retail company Next and life peer (Lord ) of the Conservative Party. He is the son of David Wolfson, Baron Wolfson of Sunningdale, which is also Life Peer of the Conservative Party.
Life and career
Wolfson was born the son of David Wolfson and Susan E. Davis. He attended Radley College near Abingdon. This was followed by a law degree from Trinity College, University of Cambridge. Wolfson began in 1991, the year when his father was Life Peer, as a sales consultant (Sales Consultant) at Next in the branch in Kensington on. The following year he became assistant to the chief executive, Sir David Jones. Wolfson rose quickly within the company, he was Retail Sales Director in 1993 and 1995, he climbed into the board ( Directory) on. In 1997 he became a member of the Board of Directors. He became Managing Director in 1999. On 1 August 2001 he was appointed Chief Executive Officer. At the age of 33 he was making him the youngest chief executive of a FTSE 100 company. Wolfson was one of the first businessmen who predicted the financial crisis in 2007.
He is a prominent supporter of the Conservative Party. He supported David Cameron's 2005 campaign during the election campaign for the post of party chairman of the Conservative Party and led the co-chair of a party committee to review the guidelines in the area of economic competitiveness. The The Daily Telegraph Wolfson led in 2007 to rank 37 of his list of the most influential British Conservatives.
Wolfson was in October 2010, one of 35 signatories to an open letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, in which he was invited to encourage the plans of the coalition government to reduce the deficit of public budgets and not to be distributed to several legislative periods because of the opposition. The letter sparked a boycott campaign against Next and the company of the other signatories.
In October 2011, Wolfson donated the Wolfson Economics Prize, worth 250,000 pounds and organized by the British think tank Policy Exchange, for a submitted until January 31, 2012 plausible plan for the orderly exit of a country from the euro zone.
Wolfson is a member of the Trusteeship Council ( Trustee ) of Policy Exchange and the Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust.
Wolfson is considered reclusive. He owns homes in London and Leicester, where Next is established.
Membership in the House of Lords
On 18 June 2010 he was appointed Life peer as Baron Wolfson of Aspley Guise, of Aspley Guise in the County of Bedfordshire, appointed and officially launched on 6 July 2010 the House of Lords. He was supported by his father and Rodney Leach, Baron Leach of Fairford. His inaugural address, there is currently (December 2010 ) is still outstanding. When his political interests he gives to the industry and economy.
Family
Wolfson is unmarried. He is the third carrier of a Life Peerage in the family Wolfson. Apart from him, and his father was also his cousin Leonard Wolfson, Baron Wolfson Life Peer.